Comparison

My Bender vs Master Bender Gold

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

My Bender

This app provides accurate conduit bending calculations by accounting for the unique characteristics of your specific bender. It allows you to adjust bender orientation for practical bending and calculates various complex bends like saddles and offsets with precise measurements.

Highlights
  • Accurate conduit bending calculations
  • Custom bender fingerprinting
  • Adjustable bender orientation
  • Offset and saddle bend calculations
  • Kicked 90° bend calculations
  • Track multiple benders and their characteristics
Features
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My Bender — Professional Conduit Bending Calculator Is that three-bend saddle at the end of the pipe? Wish you could flip the bender around to make the bend easier? With My Bender, you can. One of My Bender’s standout features is the ability to flip the orientation of the bender during calculations. Just tap the bender to reverse its orientation and My Bender automatically updates the measurements for practical, real-world bending. Built Around Your Bender My Bender delivers some of the most accurate conduit bending calculations on the App Store because it doesn’t rely on generic “rule of thumb” multipliers. Instead, My Bender uses the actual bending characteristics of your bender to perform calculations. Most conduit calculators use the cosecant method — an approximation that ignores centerline bending radius and pipe diameter. As bend angles and conduit sizes increase, those errors become more noticeable. My Bender is different. Every calculation is based on your bender’s measured centerline radius and real-world geometry, producing more accurate and repeatable bends. Calculate: * Offsets with predetermined conduit locations * Three-bend saddles * Four-bend saddles * Kicked 90° bends * Distance from benchmark to center of bend for any angle Designed for Real Electricians My Bender was built with practical conduit bending in mind. Unlike other apps, My Bender lets you flip the bender orientation to match the way you actually want to bend the conduit — then automatically displays the correct measurements for that orientation. The app is polished, fast, and designed to feel like a tool you’d actually want to use in the field. Keep Track of All Your Benders Every conduit bender has its own characteristics. My Bender helps you keep track of them all in one place. Add your own: * Hand Benders * Chicago Benders * 555 Benders * Cyclone Benders * Smart Benders * Table Benders My Bender Calculates Important Bender Characteristics: * Take-Up (Deduct) for 90° bends * Gain on 90° bends * Centerline bending radius How It Works Everything starts with the centerline bending radius. Simply bend one 90°, take a few key measurements, select the conduit size and material, and My Bender effectively “fingerprints” your bender for future calculations. Every measurement includes detailed descriptions and diagrams to help visualize exactly what needs to be measured. Support Since App Store reviews can’t be replied to directly, please email support questions or feedback to: support@iBendPipe.com

About

Master Bender Gold

This app is a precise conduit bending calculator for electricians, plumbers, and pipe fitters. It simplifies complex calculations for various bend types, supports numerous bending tools, and offers both imperial and metric measurements for accurate conduit layout.

Highlights
  • Conduit bending calculator
  • Supports offset, saddle, stub, parallel, segment, and compound bends
  • Calculates gain & take-up
  • Supports hand, electric, and hydraulic benders
  • Customizable for unsupported tools
  • Imperial and metric measurements
Features
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Master Bender Gold is the industry's leading and most precise conduit bending app for iPhone and iPad. Master Bender Gold is a conduit bending calculator for electricians. Master Bender Gold can also be used by plumbers and pipe fitters, who can enter their own tools into program. Master Bender Gold aids you in bending conduit raceways. It takes the math out of bending and allows you to concentrate on the task at hand. Master Bender Gold uses a more precise conduit bending algorithm than the cosecant method that is commonly used in the industry. This gives you more accurate bends with less waste. Master Bender Gold supports the following types of bends: * offset bends and rolling offset bends * three and four point saddle bends * stub 90° bends * parallel bends * segment bends * compound 90° bends Master Bender Gold contains information about: * gain & take-up * conduit layout * conduit weight & sizes * trig functions * fractions * bender methods * safety Master Bender Gold can bend and calculate most all types of conduit bends used today by electricians. Master Bender Gold supports numerous popular bending tools. Master Bender Gold supports hand benders, electric bender ie. sidewinder, 555, triple nickel, and hydraulic bending tools. Have a tool that is not supported? No problem! Master Bender Gold can work with any bending tool. Just tell Master Bender Gold the bending radius for your tool and you are ready to bend. Master Bender Gold computes bends using both feet/inches and metric measurements. Master Bender Gold makes it easy to bend pipes and conduit raceways regardless of whether you are a seasoned professional, studying to be in the electrical, electronic, engineering, plumbing, pipe fitting professions, or an hobbyist who needs to bend a few pipes. If you like Master Bender Gold, you may want to take a look at our other app: Master Electrician Reference™ (MER™). It includes a 29 page conduit bending manual. We also have a free version: MER™ Lite. More information is available at MasterSparky.com.

Screenshots

My Bender4 screens
Master Bender Gold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Master Bender Gold at 4.5 against My Bender's 2.6. Master Bender Gold also leads on ratings volume (435 vs 21) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). My Bender's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 19 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

My Bender costs $2.99 and Master Bender Gold $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Master Bender Gold holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Master Bender Gold has 435 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of My Bender's written reviews are positive against 36% of Master Bender Gold's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Bender ships an update every 2 weeks, Master Bender Gold every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
My Bender versus Master Bender Gold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy BenderMaster Bender Gold
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating2.6 (21 ratings)4.5 (435 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better35.7% of reviews
Number of ratings21435 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 19 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancisco AlcalaPawEng, LLC

Customer experience

My Bender

All ratings21 ratings
Positive38.1%
Neutral9.5%
Negative52.4%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral11.5%
Negative38.5%

Master Bender Gold

All ratings435 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive35.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative64.3%

Bugs and requests

My Bender

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Master Bender Gold

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Cannot change any dimensions

Requested features

3 requests
  • Spanish language option
  • Include method of measuring distance between two fixed points for master bends
  • Basic offset calculation without requiring distance and width

In-app purchases

None

My Bender

No in-app purchases

None

Master Bender Gold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Bender free?
My Bender costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Master Bender Gold free?
Master Bender Gold costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, My Bender or Master Bender Gold?
Master Bender Gold is rated higher. My Bender averages 2.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Master Bender Gold averages 4.5 from 435 ratings.
Do My Bender or Master Bender Gold have ads?
Neither My Bender nor Master Bender Gold shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Bender or Master Bender Gold?
My Bender ships an update every 2 weeks, and Master Bender Gold every 19 months. Most recently, My Bender was updated on October 3, 2026 and Master Bender Gold on September 30, 2026.

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